MedPAC Meeting Transcript Now Available

Last week the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met in Washington, D.C.  The Medicare payment issues on its agenda were:

• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Physician and other health professional services
• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Ambulatory surgical center services
• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Hospital inpatient and outpatient services;
• Mandated report: Expanding the post-acute care transfer policy to hospice
• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Skilled nursing facility services
• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Home health care services
• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Inpatient rehabilitation facility services
• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Long-term care hospital services
• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Outpatient dialysis services
• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Hospice services
• The Medicare Advantage program: Status report

A transcript of that MedPAC meeting is now available.  Find it here.